· The destruction of forests causes numerous natural damages, including alterations in local rainfall patterns, floods and accelerated soil erosion.
· Three-quarters of the world's population uses wood as their main source of energy.
· In Ethiopia , between 100,000 and 200,000 hectares of forest are cut down each year.
· Tropical forests cover 23% of the earth's surface , but disappear at a rate of 4.6 million hectares per year. Asia leads the losses with 2.2 million hectares of forest disappearing each year.
· Around 6.1 million hectares of moist deciduous forest, 1.8 million hectares of deciduous forest and 341,000 hectares of dry forest are lost annually.
· 8% of the world's forests have soil and water conservation as their main objective.
· 20% of the total CO2 emissions produced in Spain, about 80 million tons, are absorbed by forests.
· The planet has lost 80% of the original forests that covered the earth, according to the United Nations National Environment Program (UNEP). The oldest remaining forests are found mostly in the Amazon rainforest, in Central Africa, in Southeast Asia, in Canada and in Russia.
· 95% of the forests on the continental United States have been cut down in the last 500 years.
